Irish History Bitesize!さんのイラストまとめ

#Otd 1845: Birth #Cahirmoyle #Limerick of Charlotte Grace O’Brien.✍️, philanthropist, activist in nationalist causes (for Parnell) & protection♀️emigrants (went to US), plant collector! Dad=Young Irelander, William Smith O’Brien, sent to Van Diemen’s Land! https://t.co/VZqtINpJSX

CS Lewis (29 Nov 1898 #Belfast-22 Nov 1963) "Jack" to friends eg Tolkien, from dog Jacksie (died when 4)! Loved Beatrix Potter, so animal worlds. Prof @engfac @englishunicam >30📚fiction/Christian apologetics https://t.co/hohYunUKeY https://t.co/zlITfzRFuJ https://t.co/MgGbGOyte1

John Russell Young (20 Nov 1840 #Tyrone-17 Jan 1899). US journalist, Minister to Qing Empire, 7th Librarian @librarycongress 1897-9! Invited by Ulysses S. Grant to accompany him on world tour to record his 2 year journey, which he published! 🪦Philadelphia https://t.co/FdYvbBKeK2

Brothers Grimm liked Thomas Crofton Croker's 'Fairy Legends & Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825-1828)' so much they translated it into German, in Leipzig, 1826! Irische Elfenmärchen; Irish Elven Tales. Contained this illustration of The Banshi of Bunworth #FairyTaleTuesday

Francis Danby ARA (16 Nov 1793 Co #Wexford-10 Feb 1861 Exmouth).👨‍🎨. Farmer dad died when he was a boy; moved to Dublin. Drew at RDS schools. Central in Bristol School. Success in 1820s London. Lived in Switzerland, Paris, England. https://t.co/SjR6QOfcbz https://t.co/ofbQGpGuH2

#Otd 1894: Henry Horatio Dixon FRS, Prof Botany & John Joly FRS, Prof Geology, both @TCD_NatSci confirmed that tree sap is pulled upwards by a form of intermolecular attraction (cohesion-tension theory). Until then, everyone incorrectly believed it was pumped up from the roots!🌳

11 Nov: St Martin of Tours (d 397) 3rd bishop of #Tours #France. Ex-soldier. Cut cloak in 2, to give 1/2 to beggar wearing rags in winter. Some believe St Patrick was his nephew (through mum Conchessa)! Biography by Sulpicius Severus in Book of Armagh! Animals killed in Ireland!

#Belfast/Béal Feirste ‘mouth of the sand-bank ford’. It was across the mouth of the River Lagan. The little river Farset which flows below High Street & enters the Lagan near there has also been named from the ford (@placenamesni). https://t.co/NabZpahgYM https://t.co/U6aKEWpYI6

#Loughareema, Co #Antrim! On chalk with leaky bed! The 'plughole' bunged with peat, so water percolates slowly down into bed. After heavy rain the streams draining off hills of schist, overwhelm the plughole & the lake fills! The Vanishing Lake by @paddydonnelly looks wonderful!

Una Watters (4 Nov 1918 #Dublin-20 Nov 1965). Artist/librarian. eg Claíomh Solais/Sword of Light for 50th anniversary Rising, 1966.👩‍🎓@NCAD_Dublin. Early works religious, later the everyday. Exhibited RHA. Society of Dublin Painters. https://t.co/bPvfPXP45G https://t.co/WVAy9Wrl7h